Within the next month the Lebanese Ministry of Energy and Water plans to offer tenders for the construction of a pipeline to link power stations along Lebanon’s coast with a proposed LNG terminal.
The pipeline will be constructed as part of an energy strategy announced by the country’s Energy Ministry. Separate tenders will be offered to supply LNG and construct the LNG terminal.
“We plan to have a working LNG terminal by 2012,” said senior Lebanon Energy Ministry official Raymond Ghajar.
Mr Ghajar said that Lebanon was considering importing LNG from Qatar.
In April this year a study commissioned by the World Bank and completed by Poten & Partners identified Qatar, Algeria, Yemen and Egypt as the key potential gas sources for an LNG plant in Lebanon, given their geographic proximity to Lebanon and availability of supply.
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The report estimated that Lebanon would require between 1.5 and 2 MMt/a of LNG by 2020 and encouraged Lebanese officials to move quickly in securing LNG supply.
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